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If Famous Poets Had To Make A Living Today

Lewis Carroll as a TV Critic
Frank Jacobs

'Twas Bunker and the Quincy Fonz
Did Mork and Mindy in the Soap;
All Angie were the Trapper Johns
And Dallas was Bob Hope.

Avoid the Starsky-Hutch, my son,
The Ironside with Chips beneath;
Beware the Hazzard Dukes and shun
The Mash of Osmond teeth.

But Kojak Swat may Brinkley Flo
To Lobo Welby with Cosell;
If Merv, we'll Benson to Cousteau
And Sha-Na-Na as well.

And should the Vegas Hulk return
To Sanford with Tennille, no less,
We'll Cronkite Shirley from Laverne
And Hee-Haw Meet the Press.

'Twas Bunker and the Quincy Fonz
Did Mork and Mindy in the Soap;
All Angie were the Trapper Johns
And Dallas was Bob Hope.

"Lewis Carroll as a TV Critic" was part of the article "If Famous Poets Had To Make A Living Today" published in
MAD Magazine, Number 237, March 1983.

© Copyright 1982 [sic] by E. C. Publications, Inc.